HI Terry!
 I good friend is a blues guitarist. He has a Fender Deluxe amp, that is
close to falling apart at the seams.. He runs it almost wided open,
through a power attenuator and then hits the speaker after wasting much
of the amplifier's power into that attenuator, just to get the pushing
tubes to the edge sound that guitarists love. Nothing else does it.
About as opposite to traditional thinking in pro audio as one can get.
Blues harp players the same way... that have to use that Shure bullet
mic that they can cup in their hands around the harmonica... distorts
like crazy, but that's THE SOUND. After that, you can reproduce it
cleanly!
Bonnie *:>
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